frogfoot wrote-
What I mean by "fact file" is size stats, length,
weight, and general info such as where it lived, and the type of prey it would
have gone after. I'd like to know about the largest tooth of those animals
if thats possible. The creatures im after are: Indosuchus, Daspletosaurus
& Dryptosaurus.
These are incomplete (especially Daspletosaurus,
just got Russell 1970 a couple weeks ago), but pretty informative-
Indosuchus Huene and Matley 1933
I. raptorius Huene and Matley 1933 mid-late Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous Lameta Formation, India Lectotype- (GSI K27/685) (4.82 m) frontals, parietals Referred- (GSI K20/350) frontal (ISI R 163) lacrimal, jugal, posterior dentary, angular (ISI R 401-454) atlas, axis, three posterior cervical vertebrae, dorsal vertebrae 1-13, sacrum (7 vertebrae), caudal vertebrae 1-20, scapula, coracoid, humerus, ulna, capal, pelvis, femur, tibia, astragalus, metatarsal III, pedal digits III and IV (Chatterjee and Rudra 1996) Daspletosaurus Russell 1970
D. torosus Russell 1970 = Tyrannosaurus torosus Paul 1988 Late Campanian-Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation, Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Oldman Formation, Alberta, Canada Holotype- (CMN 8506) (9 m, 2.3 tons) (adult) skull (1.04 m), mandible (1.015, 1.02 m), atlas (40 mm), axis (80 mm), cervical vertebrae 3-10 (780 mm), dorsal vertebrae 1-13 (1.47 m), dorsal ribs, sacrum (752 mm), caudal vertebrae 1-11, chevrons, scapula (772 mm), coracoid (170 mm), furcula (250 mm), humerus (357 mm), radius (171 mm), ulna (214 mm), carpal, metacarpal I (60 mm), phalanx I-1 (133 mm), manual ungual I (155 mm), metacarpal II (120 mm), phalanx II-1 (48 mm), metacarpal III (71 mm), ilium (1.104 m), pubes (935, 902 mm), femur (1 m) (Makovicky and Currie 1998) Paratype- (AMNH 5438) dorsal vertebrae 11-13, sacrum (712 mm), caudal vertebrae 1-2, ilium (1.096 m), pubis, ischium, femur (1 m), tibia (870 mm), metatarsal II (490 mm) Referred- (AMNH 3546) maxilla (AMNH 5346) (adult) skull (Carr 1999) (BMNH R4863) premaxilla, maxilla, dentary (CMN 350) femur (930 mm), tibia (870 mm), metatarsus (555 mm) (CMN 841) (adult) skull (Carr 1999) (CMN 8506) (adult) skull (Carr 1999) (CMN 11315) (juvenile) cranial elements, gastralia, scapula (470 mm), coracoid (110 mm), furcula (162 mm), humerus (225 mm), radius (96 mm), ulna (120 mm), metacarpal I (32 mm), phalanx I-1 (63 mm), manual ungual I (57 mm), metacarpal II (58 mm), phalanx II-1 (28 mm), phalanx II-2 (~40 mm), manual ungual II (61 mm), metacarpal III (38 mm), ilium (~675 mm), pubis (~600 mm), ischium (488 mm), femur (665 mm), tibia (736 mm), astragalus, metatarsus (448 mm) (Makovicky and Currie 1998, Carr 1999) (CMN 11594) skull, lower jaws (FMNH PR308, originally referred to Gorgosaurus libratus) (adult) skull, skeleton (Carr 1999) (MOR 590) (adult) maxilla (Carr 1999) (OMNH 10131) premaxillary tooth (52 mm), maxillary tooth (75 mm), posterior section of frontal, anterior section of parietal, nearly complete postorbital, mid-section of dentary, 4 rib fragments, gastralium, distal half of pubis, femur lacking distal end (~1.033 m), distal half of tibia (~891 mm), distal half of metatarsal III (~ 483 mm), metatarsal IV (461 mm) (Lehman and Carpenter 1990) (OMNH coll.) (ROM 8506) skull (RTMP 82.13.1) (adult) skull (Carr 1999) (RTMP 83.38.1) (adult) skull (Carr 1999) (RTMP 85.62.1) (adult) skull (Carr 1999) (new species, Currie pers. comm. to Ryan and Russell, 2001) (RTMP 94.143.1) skull, 10+ vertebrae, ribs, fractured ilium (RTMP 94.218.1) (juvenile) skull (Carr 1999) (UA 11) femur (1 m), metatarsal IV (490 mm) Dryptosaurus Marsh 1877
probably= Tomodon Leidy 1865 probably= Diplotomodon Leidy 1868 D. aquilunguis (Cope 1866) = Laelaps aquilunguis Cope 1866 probably= Tomodon horrificus Leidy 1865 probably= Diplotomodon horrificus Leidy 1868 Late Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous New Egypt Formation, New Jersey, US Holotype- (ANSP 9995) maxillary fragment, maxillary tooth, angular?, dentary fragment, two dentary teeth, mid caudal vertebra (115 mm), mid caudal vertebra (115 mm), mid caudal vertebra (120 mm), mid caudal vertebra (117 mm), distal caudal vertebra(115 mm), distal caudal vertebra (104 mm), distal caudal vertebra (109 mm), distal caudal vertebra (97 mm), distal caudal vertebra (73 mm), humeri (~290 mm), phalanx I-1 (120 mm), manual ungual I (193 mm), phalanx II-2 (151 mm), phalanx ?-? (48 mm), pubic shafts, partial ischium, femur (770 mm), tibia (775 mm), partial fibula, astragalus missing ascending pr. (160 mm wide) (Carpenter, Russell, Baird and Denton 1997) (AMNH 2438) metatarsal IV (397 mm) (Carpenter,
Russell, Baird and Denton 1997)
Referred- (ANSP 9680) tooth (Leidy 1865, Leidy 1868) Mickey Mortimer
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